Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:09:06 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 21:56 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:45:57 -0700 (PDT) > David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:39:03 -0700 (PDT) > > > > > Put this way: if you do a distro, you _need_ to support firmware > > > loading anyway. And once you do that, it's just annoying how some > > > drivers then do something odd and special for the same thing, for > > > no real good reason. > > > > In what way is it annoying? > > > > Most distribution people aren't even aware that drivers like tg3 and > > bnx2 even have firmware. In fact it's self contained and less for > > them to worry about. > > and.. after this patch that still seems to be the case, unless I'm > looking at it really cross eyed. > Nothing in this patch makes it impossible to do so.. or changes the > drivers you mention.
Well, the HEAD of my tree (and linux-next) does change tg3. I just haven't asked Linus to pull that part, because I wanted to keep the contentious part separate from the simple and obvious parts.
(Even though the tg3 fix _is_ simple and obvious, to me. But that evidently doesn't stop it from being contentious too. So it can wait.)
-- dwmw2
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